A team of scientists at the University of California, Riverside, explains in a paper published in PLOS Pathogens how a ...

As a gifted science communicator, Grace Huckins — a lecturer at Stanford University and freelance science writer — recently ...

The brains of humans and other primates are known to execute various sophisticated functions, one of which is the ...

Researchers have found that green space exposure is associated with widespread patterns of structural brain development ...

Researchers have found that greenspace exposure is associated with widespread patterns of structural brain development during ...

A new study from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology has uncovered how the MN1 gene evolved to shape both the ...

2 Many aggressive human behaviours are based on cognitive ... and even within your friend groups. A part of your brain called the insula acts as the "womb" of belief formation.

The human brain is constantly responding to its environment ... medial prefrontal cortex, and anterior insula—areas involved in retrieving autobiographical memories and processing emotions. Older ...

Researchers have mapped a tiny sliver of the human brain on an unprecedented scale, vividly detailing each brain cell, or neuron, and the intricate networks they form with other cells. The ...

The standard ‘figure-of-eight’ coils that were used in the first human trials did not penetrate far enough into the brain to hit the insula. So Zangen used a new design that he had helped to ...